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Teaching Russian Creatively With and Beyond the Textbook is a collection of pedagogical narratives that promotes impactful approaches to teaching Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) when supplementing or going beyond a specific textbook.
With the lightning pace of modern news, social media, and technology, textbooks quickly become outdated and as a response to these rapid changes, this edited volume showcases a wide range of approaches to teaching RFL with and beyond traditional textbooks. The reader will find many creative ideas and solid practical advice from colleagues who have experimented with task- based language teaching, corpus-based learning, drama-based pedagogy, community-engaged pedagogy, and technology-mediated language learning, while incorporating authentic materials and turning them into living textbooks.
The book will be a useful resource for Russian instructors and language departments interested in engaging their students with creative and unique courses.
List of contents
Teaching Russian Without a Textbook
1 Teaching Russian Without a Textbook: Trends and Dynamics
2 Supplementing L2 Curriculum: Research-Informed Practice of What, Why, and How
Transcending Language Learning
3 Combining Experiential Learning Theory and Drama-Based Pedagogy in Advanced Russian Course
4 Learning by Doing: Podcasts in a Low-Advanced Russian Classroom
5 Globally Integrated Community-Based Pedagogy for the Russian Classroom: Developing a Historic Walking Tour as a Community Project
Bridging the Pragmatic Gap
6 Functional Everyday Russian: A Pre-Departure Course to Improve Study Abroad Participants' Willingness to Communicate
7 Russian Experience on SpatialChat: Global Simulation of dnokashniki
8 In the Dynamic Classroom: Teaching Colloquial Russian
Prospecting for language
9 Integrating Corpus-Based Activities into Russian Writing Classrooms
10 Usage-Based Model of Language in a Beginning Russian Course
11 "Songs Help": Learning Russian Through the Use of Songs and Animated Films
About the author
Svetlana V. Nuss is a teacher educator affiliated with the University of Alaska and Grand Canyon University, USA.
Wendy Whitehead Martelle is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Russian at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA.
Summary
Teaching Russian Creatively With and Beyond the Textbook is a collection of pedagogical narratives that promotes impactful approaches to teaching Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) when supplementing or going beyond a specific textbook.
